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भुजङ्ग Bhujaṅga

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VelaBhujaṅga
Bhujaṅga sits at right ascension 8.2h, declination -47°. Stars to magnitude 4.8, north up and east to the left, with the IAU constellation figures.

Attestations

Sarvasiddhāntarāja (1639) · 1639 CE

No published e-text exists; the verse is readable in Pai & Shylaja's edition (JApA 42:113, 2021, open access), whose PDF is not machine-extractable (no ToUnicode maps). Pending an OCR proofread — never retyped.

Bhujaṅga, the serpent, with its stated coordinates in the south. — Literal rendering by the compiler

The brightest Wolf-Rayet star in the sky, catalogued in Sanskrit in 1639 as a serpent of the far south. Identification and verse number per Pai & Shylaja (2021), Table 1; rendering after the edition's construal.

Sarvasiddhāntarāja, saṃkrāntyādi 24 (ed. Pai & Shylaja 2021) · text · translation